Go Read It: The Young Guns Anti-Woman 9

If you live in certain districts in the states of Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Masschussetts, Tennessee, Connecticut, Michigan or Iowa, there's a possibility a Republican candidate with a pronounced, strongly anti-woman background--maybe even criminal allegations filed against him--could be elected.

Take a look at a summary of the anti-woman records of some of the GOP candidates for Congress.

One example: Republican "Young Gun" Tom Ganley (OH-13) is involved in a lawsuit filed against him by a disillusioned conservative female campaign worker alleging sexual assault and employment discrimination. It's troubling, especially when you consider the woman was a Tea Party "true believer" who seems to have withheld her accusations, not wanting to help another candidate who is pro-choice. (Incumbent Betty Sutton, the Democrat being challenged by Ganley, has no such record of sexual assault of her campaign staff, is pro-choice, and has voted in support of consumers, women, and supported the enormously popular public option as part of the health care reform bill.)

That is, Ganley's accuser is hardly a liberal with a political axe to grind, but instead a die-hard conservative who had every reason to prop up Ganley. While there's been no determination of guilt or innocence of the allegations, Ganley's involvement does raise the question: can he reasonably and impartially stand up as a lawmaker for women who have experienced those kinds of abuses? After all, what's wrong is wrong and sexual assault is wrong, no matter the politcal party of the person who committed it.

As usual, there are crickets on the right in support of the conservative woman who was mistreated and possibly assaulted by Ganley. You'd think "mama grizzlies" would speak up for one of their own. Too busy appearing on FOX tv, maybe?

Cynematic blogs at P i l l o w b o o k.

Comments

[Professor Chaos]

Jeezuz, it's depressing that at least se of these troglodytes are going to get elected.

[Arnie]

You should look into this case before you comment on it. Dumb liberals. Everyone from the area believes it is a plant. This allegedly happened over a year ago and yet there is no police report, etc. Instead they wait to bring this out right before the election... Hmmm... Sounds Fishy

[Cynematic]

Arnie, if you click the link in the story, you'll see a police report has been filed.

"Heben says his client filed a police report about the incident on Friday, and that she hadn't done so previously because she was afraid of Ganley and initially hoped to resolve the case without publicity. The police report repeats earlier claims that Ganley made sexual remarks to the woman, grabbed her and put his hand down her pants. Cleveland Police Sgt. Sam Morris said the complaint is under investigation."

If you also read that story, you'll see that both the woman and her lawyer are staunch anti-choice conservatives who tried not to damage Ganley's campaign.

Here's the relevant section, since you didn't mention this part:

"One of the reasons my client and I delayed the suit and wanted to go into mediation is that we didn't want to help a pro-choice candidate like Betty Sutton," said Heben. "Finally, when the mediation was unsuccessful, we believed it was a moral obligation to bring these allegations to the public so they could make a proper choice for Congress."

So are you saying anti-choice conservatives created "a plant" to take down Ganley, the anti-choice candidate? You'd rather believe that than believe the woman experienced some sort of improper sexual advance from Ganley?

Sounds to me whether you're a fiscal conservative or a social conservative, your policy is to never believe the woman. I say give her a fair hearing.

And the point still holds that Betty Sutton has a clean record *and* she's acted to serve her constituency.

[Reverend Manny]

Holy crap. Thanks for posting this. I live in Brooklyn, NYC so their chauvinism is a little more coded out here. Thanks a ton, will definitely twitter this.

one love,
--rev manny

[used gun store arizona]

Now i know the new rule. Thanks for spreading this information.